No silent witness
Subtitle: the Eliot parsonage women and their Unitarian world
By: Cynthia Grant Tucker.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780195390209
Subjects: Eliot, William Greenleaf, -- 1811-1887 -- Family; Spouses of clergy -- United States -- Biography; Elliott family; Wives -- United States -- Biography; Children of clergy -- United States -- Biography; Daughters -- United States -- Biography; Unitarian women -- United States -- Biography; Unitarians -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Cynthia Tucker examines the Eliots, their religious tradition and the Eliot women's largely neglected female vocation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: The Unitarian universe; title: Calling the family together; title: The rush of words; title: Where words fail; title: The voice coach; title: Reduced to a whisper; title: Talking back and taking flight; title: A larger sphere; title: New rules of engagement; title: Old work and new; title: No parting word.